Among discussions about his anti-Bush views and outlook on US politics, Hersh makes a few insightful statements about the future of the press.

First, he acknowledges the current transformation of journalism with online technologies, and predicts the emergence of quality online (only) newspapers.

“We are eventually -- and I hate to tell this to The New York Times or the Washington Post -- we are going to have online newspapers, and they are going to be spectacular,” says Hersh.

Not only will newspapers be online, he predicts that “they are really going to cut into daily journalism,” thanks to the “vibrant, new way of communicating in America.”

Illustrating the power of these new vibrant channels, Hersh had to contact the Associated Press and The New York Times in the past, to publicize a big story he had written for The New Yorker. With the power of the Internet, the story gets hundreds of thousand of hits within days. “Once it's online, we just get flooded,” says Hersh.

On the other hand, “I don't think much of a lot of the stuff that is out there (on the Internet),” he says. “But there are a lot of people doing very, very good stuff.”
 
Source: Jewish Journal through Poynter Institute Romenesko